Critical Voices

Description

Comprised of twenty-seven interviews with leading researchers, intellectuals, artists, and activists, Critical Voices explores the ways in which power and popular mobilizations manifest in the contemporary region, as well as the representation of key dynamics, experiences, and figures. Through their own unique perspectives and possibilities, the interviewees and interviewers challenge the ways in which the region is studied, discussed, and represented.

Reviews

Critical Voices is a truly unique collection of diverse perspectives on the Middle East and beyond. With incisive questions and a range of interlocutors, the interviews offer in-depth discussions that weave the political and social together with rich historical context and analytic nuance. This series of conversations brings forth ideas that exist on the margins yet are central to understanding the region. This is a perfect antidote to the misrepresentations so prevalent in mainstream media and facile think tank analysis.

- Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now!

The Editors of Critical Voices are to be applauded for curating these sparkling gems of conversation and deeply felt engagement with world-changing developments in the Middle East and North Africa as they unfolded, in real time, since 2010. Educators in all fields- from the humanities to the social sciences, from the high school level to graduate school- will find here indispensable tools for helping their students make sense of the world in which we all now live.

-Julia Elyachar, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Economics, Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine.